Obama’s personal role in a journalist’s imprisonment
by GLENN GREENWALD
"But his (Jeremy Scahill's) newest article – describing President Obama’s personal, direct role in ensuring the ongoing imprisonment of a Yemeni journalist – may be his most important one yet; even for those inured to the abuses of the Obama administration, it’s nothing short of infuriating.

The Drone Secrecy Farce
by Scott Horton
"Indeed, according to an understanding the United States has reached with Yemen, the latter's government will generally claim internally that U.S. drone strikes were carried out by Yemen's own air force."

Washington’s high-powered Terrorist supporters
by GLENN GREENWALD
"That a large bipartisan cast of Washington officials got caught being paid substantial sums of money by an Iranian dissident group that is legally designated by the U.S. Government as a Terrorist organization, and then meeting with and advocating on behalf of that Terrorist group, is very significant for several reasons."

The Power to Kill
NYT editorial
"President Obama, who came to office promising transparency and adherence to the rule of law, has become the first president to claim the legal authority to order an American citizen killed without judicial involvement, real oversight or public accountability."

Drill Baby Drill, Redux
NYT editorial
"Hardly a day goes by that a Republican politician does not throw facts to the wind and claim that rising costs at the pump are the result of President Obama’s decisions to block the Keystone XL pipeline and impose sensible environmental regulations and modest restrictions on offshore drilling."

Iran, threats and the UN Charter
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Regardless of how one wants to rationalize these threats of an offensive military attack — they’re necessary to persuade the Israelis not to attack, they’re necessary to gain leverage with Iran, etc. — the U.N. Charter, to which the U.S. is a signatory, explicitly prohibits not just a military attack on another nation, but also the issuance of threats of such an attack. From Chapter II, paragraph 4..."

UN top torture official denounces Bradley Manning’s detention
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Yesterday, the U.N. official overseeing the investigation pronounced that “Bradley Manning was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the excessive and prolonged isolation“ to which he was subjected at Quantico."

Has Political Discourse Hit Rock Bottom?
by ANDREW ROSENTHAL
"There’s lots of evidence that the national conversation is near the ocean floor, especially regarding what pollsters call 'women’s issues.'”

February Jobs Report: First Impressions
by Jared Bernstein
"We're not adding jobs at breakneck speed, for sure, and we're still repairing the damage done by the great recession to the living standards of millions. But this month's report makes another addition to a solid and improving trend in what has been the most important missing piece in the economic recovery so far: conditions in the job market."

NPR and NYT on Americans v. Afghans
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Obama has suffered, as near as I can tell, literally zero embarrassment from this episode. The al Majala attack got a small bit of media attention when it happened and has been completely forgotten since [in the U.S., that is; it caused intense rage in Yemen and is still very well-remembered there].

Attorney General Holder defends execution without charges
by GLENN GREENWALD
"When Obama officials (like Bush officials before them) refer to someone “who is a senior operational leader of Al Qaeda or associated forces,” what they mean is this: someone the President has accused and then decreed in secret to be a Terrorist without ever proving it with evidence."

Surveillance, Security and Civil Liberties
NYT editorial
"In particular, the A.P. reports revealed widespread police spying and the creation of police records containing information on Muslim people, mosques and campus groups, as well as luncheonettes, dollar stores and other legitimate businesses owned and frequented by Muslims, with no apparent reason to think anything wrong was going on."

Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth
by DAVID CARR
"The Obama administration, which promised during its transition to power that it would enhance 'whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers,' has been more prone than any administration in history in trying to silence and prosecute federal workers.

Cash and Carry
by THOMAS B. EDSALL
"If enacted, the tax proposals Mitt Romney outlined last week to the Detroit Economic Club would provide multimillion-dollar benefits to a newly powerful constituency: the rich men and women who are bankrolling 'super PACs.'”

Abject bigotry at the New York Post
by GLENN GREENWALD
"According to The New York Post, to be Muslim — as between 5-7 million people in America are — is to be a hook-nosed, Osama-worshipping, suicide-bomb-wearing Terrorist."

War on Terror logic and the Saudis
by GLENN GREENWALD
"I’m unable to write much today, but I did want briefly to note one of the towering, central contradictions in War on Terror logic: namely, that the only foreign government which likely had any connection to 9/11 is the one which is the least likely to be attacked by the U.S."

Will Wall Street Ever Face Justice?
by PHIL ANGELIDES
"Four years after the disintegration of the financial system, Americans have, rightfully, a gnawing feeling that justice has not been served."

The Speaker and the Rainmaker
NYT eidtorial
"On Saturday, Speaker John Boehner is scheduled to gather in Florida with rich Republican donors, shoulder to shoulder with Representative Vern Buchanan, who is leading the fund-raising of House Republican candidates nationwide."

The Big Money Behind State Laws
NYT editorial
"ALEC has written model legislation on a host of subjects dear to corporate and conservative interests, and supporting lawmakers have introduced these bills in dozens of states."

Israel, MEK and state sponsor of Terror groups
by GLENN GREENWALD
"One of the most under-reported political stories of the last year is the devoted advocacy of numerous prominent American political figures on behalf of an Iranian group long formally designated as a Terrorist organization under U.S. law."

NYPD spying program aimed at Muslims
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The hallmark of a Surveillance State is that police agencies secretly monitor and keep dossiers on not only those individuals suspected of lawbreaking, but on the society generally, including those individuals about whom there is no suspicion of wrongdoing."

Those weak losers who care about “law”
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Thus: maybe a President has to take that old, antiquated, pre-9/11 oath to 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States,' but that doesn’t mean you actually have to believe it. What kind of loser checks with his lawyers and cares about 'law'?

Uncle Sam Is No Imam
by SAMUEL J. RASCOFF
"The problem is that when American officials intervene in Islamic teachings — interpreting them to believers in a national-security context and saying which are or are not acceptable — they create tensions, both legal and strategic."

Why China’s Political Model Is Superior
by ERIC X. LI
"America and China view their political systems in fundamentally different ways: whereas America sees democratic government as an end in itself, China sees its current form of government, or any political system for that matter, merely as a means to achieving larger national ends."

New Weasel Word on Iran Nukes
by Robert Parry
"The key weasel word now is 'capability,' which is a very elastic concept since any work on nuclear research for peaceful purposes, such as low-level enrichment of uranium, could theoretically be used toward a weapons 'capability.'"

This War Is Not Over Yet
by MARY L. DUDZIAK
"Indeed, the 'ending' of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq appears to have no consequences for the ending of detention."

U.S. v. Pakistan on transparency and accountability
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Virtually without exception, the American judiciary has refused to allow any victims of America’s War on Terror abuses — whether foreign national or American citizen — to even have their claims heard in court."

Pursuit of the Whistle-Blowers
NYT Editorial
"A federal lawsuit filed against the Food and Drug Administration raises disturbing questions about whether the agency retaliated against whistle-blowers for trying to warn Congress that medical devices were being pushed toward approval despite safety concerns."

Britain Shouldn’t Aid a Lawless America
by ERIC L. LEWIS
"THE British government will be held in contempt of court later this week if it does not physically produce a prisoner of war whom its special forces captured in 2004 and then handed over to American soldiers."

Will AIPAC and Bibi get their war?
by MJ ROSENBERG
"It is clear that the Israeli government and its neoconservative camp followers here in the United States are increasing pressure on President Obama to either attack Iran or let Israel do it (in which case we would be forced to join in)."

The growing Iranian military behemoth
by GLENN GREENWALD
"And there is, tragically, little doubt that if there is an attack on Iran by Israel — with direct U.S. involvement or, more likely, U.S. support and approval — there will be little opposition in either American political party, and even less challenge to the ludicrous claims about the Grave Iranian Threat that will be invoked to justify it."

Queen of Angels' Condoms
by Greg Palast
"The Queen of Angels hospital, church-owned though it may be, has no right to tell its Jewish doctors and employees to wear crucifixes. Nor should the Church's managers be allowed to tell their employees that the health care they receive by law should be dictated by the religious views of their employer."

Elections Are for Suckers
by Robert Scheer
"Our own elections, the ones our government has modeled for the world, are a hoax. What other word should we use to describe this year's presidential election, whose outcome will turn on which party's super PACs gets the most generous bribes from billionaires?"

Repulsive progressive hypocrisy
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The sharpest edges of President Obama’s counterterrorism policy, including the use of drone aircraft to kill suspected terrorists abroad and keeping open the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have broad public support, including from the left wing of the Democratic Party."

U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed."

The Cancer in Occupy
by Chris Hedges
"The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement."

Conservatives vs. Liberals: More Than Politics
by Thomas B. Edsall
"The contest for power between Democrats and Republicans pits two antithetical value systems against each other; two conflicting concepts of freedom, liberty, fairness, right, and wrong; two mutually exclusive notions of the state, the individual, and the collective good."

Romney's Dukakis Moment?
by Jayne Lyn Stahl
"As a young man back in the 1960's, Romney followed the family tradition of avoiding the military by serving as a Mormon missionary in France at the onset of the war in Vietnam."

Leon Panetta’s explicitly authoritarian decree
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The very same faction that pretended for years to be so distraught by Bush’s mere eavesdropping on and detention of accused Terrorists without due process is now perfectly content to have their own President kill accused Terrorists without due process, even when those targeted are their fellow citizens..."

Selling the "Supply-Side" Myth
by Robert Parry
"Despite Newt Gingrich’s claim that 'supply-side' economic theories have “worked,” the truth is that America’s three-decade experiment with low tax rates on the rich, lax regulation of corporations and 'free trade' has been a catastrophic failure, creating massive federal debt, devastating the middle class and off-shoring millions of American jobs."

The Grave Threat of “Homegrown Terrorism”
by GLENN GREENWALD
"A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialized, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research group."

Do Drones Undermine Democracy?
by PETER W. SINGER
"In America, our Constitution explicitly divided the president’s role as commander in chief in war from Congress’s role in declaring war. Yet these links and this division of labor are now under siege as a result of a technology that our founding fathers never could have imagined."

Getting Rid of "Anti-Israel" Presidents
by Robert Parry
"The Israeli press is debating the significance of an article by the publisher of a Jewish magazine in Atlanta, Georgia, urging Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to consider sending Mossad hit men to assassinate President Barack Obama."

Divining the Truth about Iran
by Ray McGovern
"However, if you read the articles very closely you may see references to Iran supposedly working toward the 'capacity to build' nuclear weapons, not that Iran is actually working on building a nuclear bomb."

Drowning In Hypocrisy
by Paul Craig Roberts
"But it is in the War Crimes Arena where Washington shows the greatest hypocrisy. The self-righteous bigots in Washington are forever rounding up heads of weak states whose countries were afflicted by civil wars and sending them off to be tried as war criminals. All the while Washington indiscriminately kills large numbers of civilians in six or more countries, dismissing its own war crimes as 'collateral damage.' Washington violates its own law and international law by torturing people."

Deconstructing a Demagogue
by TIMOTHY EGAN
"Gingrich, as he showed in a gasping effort in Thursday night’s debate in Florida, is a demagogue distilled, like a French sauce, to the purest essence of the word’s meaning."

Western justice and transparency
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The CIA seems to have dictated to our democratically elected President that he can’t provide the kind of transparency necessary to remain a democracy. We can kill you–they appear to be planning to say–and we’ll never have to prove that doing so was just. You’ll just have to trust us!"

Thank You for Standing Up
by Chris Hedges
"Our electoral system, already hostage to corporate money and corporate lobbyists, gasped its last two years ago. It died on Jan. 21, 2010, when the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission granted to corporations the right to spend unlimited amounts on independent political campaigns."

Rules of American justice: a tale of three cases
by GLENN GREENWALD
"So warped but clear are these Rules of American Justice that they produced darkly sardonic applications yesterday. Mazahir Hussein said: 'Bradley Manning should’ve really considered committing some war crimes instead of exposing them.'"

The Romney Tax Loophole
by Robert Reich
"It's not how much Romney earns. Everyone knows he's comfortably in the top one-tenth of one percent. It's how much he pays of it in taxes. Romney says he pays a tax rate of 'about 15 percent.'"

Is Killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists Terrorism?
by Kevin Jon Heller
"Again, it is not yet clear that the Mossad are responsible for killing the Iranian nuclear scientists. If they are, though, the fact that they used explosive devices in public places means that the attacks qualify as terrorism under the Terrorist Bombing Convention."

Israel as the Apartheid State
by Willy Scanlon
"The rule of Apartheid not only destroys any proposed future peace agreement but it also promulgates hatred and tensions in both the separated Palestinian and Jewish communities inside Israeli and the occupied Palestinian territories."

Ron Paul's False Founding Narrative
by Robert Parry
"The broad powers that the Constitution granted Congress were designed to let this central government address national problems that existed then as well as others that would arise in the future."

More murder of Iranian scientists: still Terrorism?
by GLENN GREENWALD
"But if you’re going to claim that terrorism is a barbaric tactic that has to be stamped out, you can hardly endorse its use by the United States just because it’s convenient in this particular case."

My Guantánamo Nightmare
by LAKHDAR BOUMEDIENE
"On Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charge."

Newt’s Shop of Horrors
by TIMOTHY EGAN
"And yet, of course, what killed Gingrich was in part his own creation, and not just because he himself is a millionaire consultant paid to destroy or inflate on demand. The Frankenstein’s monster emerged from his own shop of horrors."

The GOP History of Hostage-Taking
by Robert Parry
"Knowing that the Democrats are hesitant to take those hits, Republicans have held the U.S. economy hostage to extract concessions from President Barack Obama on GOP priorities."

Arms Dealer Obama Will Win by Default
by Robert Scheer
"Barack Obama will be re-elected not as a vindication of his policies but because the Republicans are incapable of providing a reasonable challenge to his flawed performance."

End of the pro-democracy pretense
by GLENN GREENWALD
"That’s because one of the prime aims of America’s support for Arab dictators has been to ensure that the actual views and beliefs of those nations’ populations remain suppressed, because those views are often so antithetical to the perceived national interests of the U.S. government."

Arthur Brisbane and selective stenography
by GLENN GREENWALD
"That most reporters faithfully follow the stenographer model — uncritically writing down what people say and then leaving it at that — is so obvious that it’s hardly worth the effort to demonstrate it."

The Four Occupations of Planet Earth
by Tom Engelhardt
"We exist -- and even Time knows it. From Tunis in January to Moscow in December this has been, day by day, week by week, month by month, the year of the protester."

Panetta: Iraq War was “worth it”
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The disastrous legacy of the Iraq War extends beyond treasure squandered and lives lost or shattered. Central to that legacy has been Washington’s decisive and seemingly irrevocable abandonment of any semblance of self-restraint regarding the use of violence as an instrument of statecraft."

How to Save Iraq From Civil War
by AYAD ALLAWI, OSAMA AL-NUJAIFI and RAFE AL-ESSAWI
"IRAQ today stands on the brink of disaster. President Obama kept his campaign pledge to end the war here, but it has not ended the way anyone in Washington wanted."

Surrendering More American Rights
by Lawrence Davidson
"More than a decade after the 9/11 attacks – even after Osama bin Laden’s death and U.S. intelligence assessments that al-Qaeda is collapsing – Congress keeps on chipping away at U.S. constitutional rights in the name of fighting terrorism, and President Obama is ready to go along..."

Obama: The conservative in 2012
by E.J. Dionne Jr.
"Obama is defending a tradition that sees government as an essential actor in the nation’s economy, a guarantor of fair rules of competition, a countervailing force against excessive private power, a check on the inequalities that capitalism can produce, and an instrument that can open opportunity for those born without great advantages."

Snapshots of Washington’s essence
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Senior Democrats barely blink at the idea that a president from their party has assembled such a highly efficient machine for the targeted killing of suspected terrorists."

2011: The Year the Power Went Off in Washington
by Arianna Huffington
"This year, what was happening outside Washington was much more important than the tired reruns going on inside the Beltway, however slow the media has been to catch up."

Saving Our Democracy
by Sen. Bernie Sanders
"The Constitution of this country has served us well, but when the Supreme Court says that attempts by the federal government and states to impose reasonable restrictions on campaign ads are unconstitutional, our democracy is in grave danger."

Obama and the Rule of Law
by Jeff Connaughton
"Long silent and now contradictory, President Obama needs to deliver a clarifying speech about our financial markets and the rule of law."

The Bush/Obama War Against Truth
by Melvin Goodman
"Manning's inhuman and degrading treatment clearly is designed as a warning to other individuals who might be considering the unauthorized release of classified information."

Pvt. Manning and Imperative of Truth
by Ray McGovern
"What I especially admire in Bradley Manning is this: his ability, at the age of 22, to discern that there can be a hierarchy of -- sometimes conflicting -- values, and that from a moral standpoint some values dwarf others in importance."

Various matters
by GLENN GREENWALD
"A New York Times article yesterday examined the sometimes severe psychological stress experienced by the long-distance, remote-controlled operators of America’s drones."

Is Iraq War End a New Day?
by Robert Parry
"Indeed, the U.S. departure represents a hard-fought victory for the Iraqi resistance, including anti-American Shiite leader Moktada al-Sadr whose political influence with the Maliki government was a key factor in Maliki's rejection of American requests to leave behind a 'residual' military force."

House GOP Lays Out Its True Beliefs For All To See
by Robyn Blumner
"In one tidy package, the Republican leadership in Congress has presented their priorities to the American people: Protect millionaires, industrial polluters, gouging doctors and fossil-fuel refiners, while sacrificing the interests of federal workers and the long-term unemployed."

Secrecy defines Obama’s drone war
WAPO with Foreign Policy article
"No new legal opinions were sought, said a former Obama official involved in the process, and there was no challenge to the CIA’s unilateral authority to choose targets and launch strikes in Pakistan."

The We-Are-At-War! mentality
by GLENN GREENWALD
"So my question to defenders of Obama’s assassination powers is this: which of those four core Bush/Cheney War on Terror premises do you reject, if any?"

Trumping the Newt
Nyuk nyuk nyuk
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
"But at this point, the GOP needs to worry less about winning the election, and worry more about surviving this debacle as a party. In politics, you can survive having people revile you. But you can't survive if they all start laughing at you, and the GOP have turned themselves into a very tasteless but ongoing joke at this point."

Obama to sign indefinite detention bill into law
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The ACLU said last night that the bill contains 'harmful provisions that some legislators have said could authorize the U.S. military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians, including American citizens, anywhere in the world'..."

The Face of the Killer Who Is Your President
by ARTHUR SILBER
"The continuing murders in Pakistan and Afghanistan are so numerous and so regular that they barely merit notice for more than a few days, at least as far as the United States government and most Americans are concerned."

Grand Delusion: Resisting the Siren Song of Specialness
by Chris Floyd
"In the months to come, we will be subjected to an ever-growing, ever-roaring flood of rhetoric about the unique, unquestionable, divinely ordained goodness of America. (And how the "other side" would destroy or demean this precious moral specialness.)"

The growing menace of domestic drones
by GLENN GREENWALD
"No matter one’s views, the escalating addition of drones — weaponized or even just surveillance — to the vast arsenal of domestic weapons that already exist is a serious, consequential development."

The real definition of Terrorism
by Glenn Greenwald
"Few things better illustrate the utter meaninglessness of the word Terrorism than applying it to a citizen of an invaded country for fighting back against the invading army and aiming at purely military targets..."

U.S. arming Egyptian military crackdown
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The US attempt to reposition itself as a supporter of democracy and human rights in the Middle East is being undermined by a growing Egyptian perception that Washington will back Egypt’s military junta unreservedly despite its increasing repressiveness."

Words That Don't Work
by George Lakoff
"When Luntz says he is "scared to death," he means that the Republicans who hire him are scared to death and he can profit from that fear by offering them new language."

The Obama Regime Has No Constitutional Scruples
by Paul Craig Roberts
"The Bush/Obama regimes have evaded the Geneva Conventions by declaring that detainees are not POWs, but 'enemy combatants,' 'terrorists,' or some other designation that removes all accountability from the US government for their treatment."

George Orwell on the Evil Iranian Menace
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Given the extensive violence and aggression the U.S. has perpetrated, and continues to perpetrate, on numerous countries in that region, one might think that not even our political culture could sustain the propagandistic myth that it is Iran that is the aggressor state and the U.S. that is its peace-loving victim."

Guy Fawkes
To tell the truth
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
"In America the main problem is that the mainstream press has been neutered by corporate control, both through direct ownership and indirectly, though manipulating revenues and getting their trained lackeys in Congress to exert political pressure. As a result, TV networks and major newspapers are, at best, only sometimes trustworthy, and quite often not trustworthy at all."

Wes Clark and the neocon dream
by GLENN GREENWALD
"As far as I can tell, there’s barely any difference in goals within the foreign policy establishment. They just disagree on the best methods to achieve the goals."

Lessons From the Dead in a No-Learning-Curve World
by Tom Engelhardt
"These days, the names of the dead dribble directly onto the inside pages of newspapers, or simply into the ether, in a war now opposed by 63% of Americans, according to the latest CNN/ORC opinion poll, but in truth barely remembered by anyone in this country."

Congress endorsing military detention, a new AUMF
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The Obama administration and their Senate defenders have repeatedly made clear that their real objection to this bill is that they want Executive Branch officials — in the DOJ, CIA and Pentagon — to make these decisions, not Congress, and there is no reason to disbelieve them."

Occupy Movement: Next Step Convergence
by Joel Hirschhorn
"When it comes to political and social movements, history shows us that they usually fail not because they disappear, but rather because they become marginalized, unimportant despite a core group of committed people and groups."

The Age of Extremism: Mammon Worshippers Launch All-Out War
by Chris Floyd
"On Wednesday -- the day before Britain's unions launched the largest strike the country has seen in almost 90 years -- the UK's coalition government finally removed its mask of "moderation" and showed its true, ravenous face."

The Supercommittee Fails—and That's Good for Obama
by David Corn
"In the latest twist of this never-ending saga, Obama is both calling out the Republicans and holding what appears to be a position of strength. That may all shift suddenly. This is politics. But Obama's Democratic fans should savor the moment."

A police raid suffused with symbolism
by GLENN GREENWALD
"A military style raid on peaceful protesters camped out in the shadow of Wall Street, ordered by a cold ruthless billionaire who bought his way into the mayor’s office."

GOP and TP on Obama’s foreign policy “successes”
by GLENN GREENWALD
"So here you have Think Progress heaping praise on Obama for seizing what is literally the most radical power a President can seize: the power to target — in total secrecy and with no checks or due process — their fellow citizens for execution: specifically, assassination-by-CIA."

U.S. takes the lead on behalf of cluster bombs
by GLENN GREENWALD
"But now the Obama administration is moving far beyond a mere refusal to join the convention banning these munitions. According to The Independent, the U.S. is playing the leading role “to torpedo the global ban on cluster bombs” through a “proposal that would permit the use of cluster bombs as long as they were manufactured after 1980 and had a failure rate of less than one per cent."

Bob Schieffer, Ron Paul and journalistic “objectivity”
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The overarching rule of “journalistic objectivity” is that a journalist must never resolve any part of a dispute between the Democratic and the Republican Parties, even when one side is blatantly lying."

An Iraq-WMD Replay on Iran?
by Robert Parry
"The American public is about to be inundated with another flood of “expert analysis” about a dangerous Middle Eastern country presumably hiding a secret nuclear weapons program that may require a military strike, although this time it is Iran, not Iraq."

Bloomberg vs. Occupy Wall Street
by Joe Conason
"More than 84 percent of the subprime mortgages in 2006, for instance, were issued by private lending institutions, including 82 percent of the subprime loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers."

History Is Made in Australia
by Al Gore
"This is a historic moment. Australia's Parliament has put the nation's first carbon price into law."

Finding Freedom In Handcuffs
by Chris Hedges
"The wealthy and the powerful, the ones behind the glass at Goldman Sachs, laughed and snapped pictures of us as if we were a brief and odd lunchtime diversion from commodities trading, from hoarding and profit, from this collective sickness of money worship, as if we were creatures in a cage, which in fact we soon were."

The drone mentality
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Many people want to hear nothing about these victims — like Tariq — because they don’t want to accept that the leader for whom they cheer and the drone attacks they support are regularly ending the lives of large numbers of innocent people, including children."

OWS-inspired activism
by GLENN GREENWALD
"A country cannot radically reduce quality-of-life expectations, devote itself to the interests of its super-rich, and all but eliminate its middle class without triggering sustained citizen fury."

Palestine Enters UNESCO In 107 To 14 Vote
by James Wall
"In addition to leaving the US and Israel with a demonstratively shrinking number of friends in the international community, the UNESCO vote has far-reaching implications for the PLO's earlier request to the UN Security Council, which requested full statehood membership in the UN General Assembly."

The human toll of the U.S. drone campaign
by GLENN GREENWALD
"It’s easy to cheer for a leader who regularly extinguishes the lives of innocent men, women, teeangers and young children when you can remain blissfully free of hearing about the victims."

Washington Pre-Occupied
by Robert Reich
"The biggest question among activists now occupying Wall Street and dozens of other cities is how to strike back against the nation's almost unprecedented concentration of income, wealth, and political power in the top 1 percent."

The importance of protests
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Though still in what I hope is its incipient stage, this protest movement proves that citizens of all different backgrounds and even ideologies (though sharing common interests) possess the ability to unite, pose a threat to seemingly invulnerable power factions, and demand change beyond the mere act of voting once every two years — and that they can endure and even grow in the face of abusive police force."

A remaining realm of American excellence
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Identically, both before and after the Awlaki killing, Americans have routinely celebrated the drone-deaths of hundreds of individuals about whom they knew nothing other than the fact that the Terrorist label had been applied to them by the U.S. Government."

The killing of Awlaki’s 16-year-old son
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Two weeks after the U.S. killed American citizen Anwar Awlaki with a drone strike in Yemen — far from any battlefield and with no due process — it did the same to his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, ending the teenager’s life on Friday along with his 17-year-old cousin and seven other people."

The LA Times notices the “double standard” on Iran
by GLENN GREENWALD
"If the U.S. believes it has the right to assassinate enemies like Anwar Awlaki anywhere in the world in the name of a “war on terror” that has no geographical limitation, how can it then argue that other nations don’t have a similar right to track down their enemies and kill them wherever they’re found?"

If a Republican Were President
by Robert Scheer
"Instead we are left with a Democratic president who soothes our rage with promises of decent-paying jobs that in actuality are being vigorously exported from our shores by the president's top corporate backers."

Can OWS be turned into a Democratic Party movement?
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Does CAP and the DCCC really believe that most of the protesters are motivated — or can be motivated — to turn themselves into a get-out-the-vote machine for Obama’s re-election and the empowerment of Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party?"

Rick Perry's Revolutionary War "History"
by Robert Parry
"For people who supposedly revere the Founding Fathers and the Constitution, the Tea Party and its favored candidates seem to know little about the actual history of the Revolutionary War or why the Constitution was written."

Listen to the Occupy Wall Street Movement
by Mohamed A. El-Erian
"To those wondering whether to pay attention to the "Occupy Wall Street" (OWS) protests, the answer is yes. This is more than just a nascent movement that will grow in the weeks and months ahead. It is part of a worldwide drive for greater social justice."

The Awlaki memo and Marty Lederman
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Several months after President Obama ordered Anwar Awlaki killed by the CIA, the Obama DOJ — specifically lawyers within its Office of Legal Counsel — produced a memorandum legally authorizing this action. Despite multiple requests, the Obama administration refuses to release that memo to the public."

The Suicide of Liberty
by Paul Craig Roberts
"Financial deregulation and the consequent financial crisis, collapse of the real estate market, and evictions of millions of Americans from their homes have greatly dimmed America's economic prospects."

How to Regain Our Democracy
by Cenk Uygur
"We must pass an amendment saying that corporations are not people and they do not have the right to spend money to buy our politicians."

Various matters
by GLENN GREENWALD
"If you think about it, [Marc] Ambinder’s observation is amazing: it means that the current iteration of Obama is to the Right on national security as compared to where Romney would have been a few years ago while attacking Obama from the Right."

So much evidence, there’s no need to show it
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Now that hordes of Obama defenders are running around justifying the President’s due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizen Anwar Awlaki based on exactly the same claim and mindset — our President targeted a Very Bad Terrorist, so no due process or disclosure of evidence was needed..."

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s assignment editor
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The Occupy Wall Street protest has been growing in numbers, respectability, and media attention for several weeks now. Despite that, The New York Times‘ financial columnist who specializes in Wall Street coverage, Andrew Ross Sorkin, has neither visited the protests nor written about them — until today."

OCCUPY Your City and Make History
by Robert Greenwald
"The Occupy Wall Street protest is a full bore indictment against corporate greed and dysfunctional government. It's a demand for nation building here at home."

Execution by secret WH committee
by GLENN GREENWALD
"American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions..."

The Death Penalty
Killing time
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
"The main problem with the Troy Davis execution wasn't that the man was almost certainly innocent of the crime he was being killed for; the problem was that no civilized nation should have the death penalty in the first place."

The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality
by GLENN GREENWALD
"What's most striking about this is not that the U.S. Government has seized and exercised exactly the power the Fifth Amendment was designed to bar ("No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law"), and did so in a way that almost certainly violates core First Amendment protections (questions that will now never be decided in a court of law)."

Reagan's "Greed Is Good" Folly
by Robert Parry
"So, it turns out that greed isn't good after all -- at least not for the vast majority of the American people. But this is a lesson that many U.S. opinion leaders still resist."

Dennis G. Jacobs: Case study in judicial pathology
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The last decade has spawned a massive expansion of the domestic Surveillance State. Worse, the U.S. Government has vested itself with the virtually unchallenged ability to operate this surveillance regime in full secrecy and even beyond the reach of judicial review, which is another way of saying: above and beyond the rule of law."

Obama Tells Palestinians to Stay in Back of Bus
by STEVE CLEMONS
"Perhaps most disappointing is that President Obama, who in earlier years at the UN chastised Mahmoud Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, and George Mitchell for not getting more quickly on a constructive peace track, who felt that achieving an Israel-Palestine two state deal was of such strategic significance to the United States that he made it one of the very first out-of-the gate priorities of his administration, has not only offered nothing new to break the Israel-Palestine negotiations deep freeze but has acquiesced to the very narrative that on the negotiations that Israel embraces."

The mainstreaming of Walt and Mearsheimer
by GLENN GREENWALD
"But American politicians won't be entertaining that debate as they exercise their veto because, as The Israel Lobby documented and Tom Friedman today put it, 'the powerful pro-Israel lobby . . . can force the administration to defend Israel at the U.N., even when it knows Israel is pursuing policies not in its own interest or America's.'"

Veto a State, Lose an Ally
by TURKI AL-FAISAL
"The United States must support the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations this month or risk losing the little credibility it has in the Arab world."

Endless War and the culture of unrestrained power
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Far worse is what is being done to prosecute that war, the transformation of government institutions and their relationship to the citizenry to sustain it, and, most enduringly of all, the mentality that it has spawned and entrenched."